Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-04-22-Speech-4-010"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-04-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Outcome of the trial against Leyla Zana and others in Ankara2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040422.1.4-010"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-04-22-Speech-4-0112
lpv:speaker	lp:Andrew Duff2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I would like to thank the Commission for its extremely strong and clear statement on the unfortunate Zana case. During the recent Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting in Turkey, we brought up the issue of the Leyla Zana trial, as we always do. Justice Minister Cicek promised us that in the next package of constitutional reforms, which I think is to be published this week, the State Security Courts would be scrapped. This is, of course, first-class news because these courts do not contribute to justice; they do not contribute to security. The Turkish Government fully appreciates the political importance of the Zana case for the European Parliament. As a strong Turkophile, let me be quite clear that, if Leyla Zana and her colleagues are not released soon, it will be impossible for Turkey's closest friends to argue that accession negotiations should be opened from December. No country can seriously contemplate European membership with nearly six thousand prisoners of conscience, no matter how controversial those people prove to be."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; AFCO (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Liberal Democrat Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Duff (ELDR )."1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph